Survive in the world of Red Mansions

After practicing brush calligraphy in the study outside for a while, I began to look through the old documents, letters, and materials in order to better deepen my memory, and also to understand the current situation, to see if it matches the memory of Lin Ruhai I got earlier.

If at the beginning I confirmed that I came to such a different world of a novel, I still held an attitude of indifference, then now that I know that my precious son is also coming, I have to think carefully and plan carefully!

A Dream of Red Mansions was written by Cao Xueqin of the Qing Dynasty (but now some experts and professors have raised objections to it), which inevitably bears some imprints of the Qing Dynasty, but in order to avoid those in power, it is only relatively obscure, about the competition for imperial power, and Kangxi The chaos in the later period was very similar.

Although the prince was established very early, the position of the prince has not been very stable since the beginning of the past two or three years. Not only his own brothers are fighting tit for tat, but they are ready to step on the prince, the crown prince, to take the position.The emperor himself became more and more dissatisfied with the prince he had established himself.Although this kind of dissatisfaction is not very obvious, it is already slowly weakening the influence of the prince's family. In the past two years, several ministers who supported the prince have been transferred or demoted, which is the best proof.It seems that because of the power in his hands, the emperor not only showed no mercy to his courtiers, but also showed no mercy to his own son.

The prince is in a hurry now, even if it's not a big mess, it won't be any better.The more the emperor weakened his power, the more Prince Li Wei wanted to draw more courtiers to support him.It's a pity that he forgot that even if he is a prince now, he is only a prince. If he wants to gain more power, he still depends on his father. If he wants to gain more power, he must get it from his father. Divide his power as the emperor, and even if there is a prince, the emperor can take back the power in his hands at any time!Maybe the prince himself understands this truth, but he has waited too long. The elder brother above and the younger brother below started to enter the court one by one with the support of the emperor, and they are really anxious.

When the crown prince was just one year old, he was established as the crown prince and had been the crown prince for almost 40 years. As the crown prince, he could not wait for his father to die and succeed to the throne.But now several of my brothers are growing up gradually, entering the court one by one, and as each of them has more and more power in their hands, the ambitions of these brothers have also begun to show.

The emperor used to love the prince who was brought up by himself very much. For the other sons to enter the court, it was really just to assist the prince at the beginning, and at the same time to better sharpen the prince so that the prince can learn better The art of manipulating people is the way of the king, but his practice just fueled the ambitions of the other princes, so that things backfired.

Now the crown prince Li Wei, the eldest prince Li Yu, and the third prince Li Juan are all pulling cages on Lin Ruhai. Although Lin Ruhai is the current emperor's confidant, he doesn't dare to offend these nobles too much.The emperor is almost 60 years old now, who knows which prince will ascend to the throne in the end, if the one he supported loses, Lin Ruhai will never be able to please the new emperor after he ascends the throne, so he can only try his best to refuse and delay without any trace.The third prince, Li Juan, repeatedly exerted pressure through Jiangnan Zhen's family, and also used Jia Min's natal family to pull the cage. In recent letters, Jia's mother also asked Lin Ruhai to support the third prince many times.The men in Jia's family are useless, but the women in the back house have a lot of ideas, and they are dreaming of the dream of becoming a dragon.

Lin Hai knew that Jia Yuanchun had now entered the residence of the fourth prince. The Jia family was originally a supporter of the prince, but because the third prince was now more and more valued by the emperor, there was concubine Zhen Gui, who was very popular with the emperor, in the harem. With the strong support of the Zhen family, who is in full swing, the voice of ascending to the throne is increasing day by day.The Jia family and the Zhen family are old relatives, and now they are secretly supporting the third prince. Originally, they wanted to get Jia Yuanchun, who was a female official in the palace, to the third prince's mansion, so that after the third prince ascended the throne, he might be able to get a palace master In the future, if Yuan Chunsheng has a little prince, it is not impossible to go further, but I don't know what went wrong. Jia Yuanchun was accused of going to the fourth prince's residence, which disappointed the Jia family.

Thinking about the final ending of Lin Ruhai in the original drama, it seems that Lin Daiyu died of illness when she was about 10 years old. His death was not only due to illness, but also because he was a confidant of the former emperor or did not support the fourth prince, and was liquidated by the former fourth prince who ascended the throne. Such an important position should be given to his confidant to rest assured.

Now that Lin Hai came here, he wanted to keep the Lin family, and even more so to protect his precious son, so he couldn't fall into the end of the original drama.Thinking of the original play, after Lin Ruhai died of illness, only the orphan Lin Daiyu brought the wealth of the Lin family to the Jia family, and the Jia family built a beautiful and luxurious Grand View Garden, but she ended up with a tragic ending of crying and dying. At that time, the Jia family was also exiled by the new royal family.

From the current point of view, we still have to rely more on the current old emperor. For the sake of Lin Hai's protection of Jiangnan's salt tax, the emperor also has to protect Lin Hai.The other princes are watched by the emperor, but they can't pull the cage. If they want to be ruthless, they still have to think more about it. The current battle has not reached the most intense time, and everyone is still covering it up.However, if possible, it would be best to have a little relationship with the Fourth Prince secretly.When the fourth prince came to the throne, he just couldn't become the new emperor's confidant. For the sake of supporting him before he ascended the throne, it should be no problem to retire unscathed.But it would be best if the emperor could accept his resignation request after the second term of office expires next year, leave this "crater" and be transferred to the capital, but he would not be able to be reused. Now I am worried every day.

Lin Hai also thought about Lin Ruhai's relatives and friends in the same year, many of whom have little contact now, because they have been far away from the capital for too long, and Jia Min's self-reliance on the identity of the daughter of the Duke's mansion, the old relatives and old friends of the Lin family, including some of Lin Ruhai. In the same year, they were very indifferent, and the relationship gradually became estranged.

The hostesses of the back house are in charge of welcoming and sending them off, and these wives and wives can often influence the decisions of their male hosts to a certain extent.

Lin Hai thought of the gifts that Jia Min sent out every year. The gifts from the Jia Mansion were definitely the most important. Each gift was no less than 5000 taels of silver. Sometimes some rare treasures were given to Jia Mu, even reaching tens of thousands. two.Although Lin Ruhai is a capable minister, he was born as a literati after all, and in some respects he has some lofty literati, and he doesn't care too much about money. In addition, the Lin family's income is not rich, and there is no shortage of money, so for Jia Min's respect for his natal family Every time I give a big boxing gift, I never pay attention to it.What's ridiculous is that every time the Jia family returns gifts, they are some special products of the capital, children's toys, fabrics, and their own prospects. What's the idea of ​​those return gifts.

It's almost time to give gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It seems that I still have to ask myself, and those gift lists should be adjusted accordingly.When Jia Min married into the Lin family as the prostitute of the Duke's Mansion, she considered herself to be a low-income woman. Mrs. Lin also looked down on a daughter-in-law from a family of military generals. She felt that there was no background in a scholarly family. But the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was not very good from the beginning.Later, Jia Min hadn't given birth for many years, and Mrs. Lin was looking forward to having a grandson in her arms as soon as possible. When Lin Ruhai was married and had no children for many years, she asked Lin Ruhai to take a concubine, which plunged the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law into a freezing point, and only maintained the superficial peace. , until Mrs. Lin died of illness, there was no relief.

Judging from the memories Lin Hai got, the relationship between the Lin family and Mrs. Lin’s natal Yao family seemed to be inexplicably broken shortly after Mrs. Lin passed away. In addition, Lin Ruhai was in a hurry to take up the post in Yangzhou back then, so she didn’t know what was going on. Because of this reason, Lin Ruhai was quite dissatisfied with the Yao family's actions.According to Lin Hai's view, Jia Min must have contributed a lot to the current state of the Lin family and the Yao family, and vented all his dissatisfaction with Mrs. Lin back then.

He raised his hand and rubbed his forehead involuntarily, thinking that he would consider asking the housekeeper to personally deliver his letter of apology to see if the relationship between the two could improve.The Yao family is also a scholarly family, not to say that they have a high reputation among scholars, but their reputation is still very good. In addition to outsiders, there is currently a cousin who works in the Imperial Academy, and there is also the Lin family in Suzhou. The relationship is quite far away, but the general manager is surnamed Lin, so it's good to get closer. Who makes the power of clans in this world sometimes more useful than the laws of the country.

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